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\label{Slot_ResourceParameter}

After a slot has been created, you must assign the `Use slot based access controls' (useslots) parameter to one or more resources and/or folders in order to use the slot. One way to do this is to display the Course Contents listing page, then open folders as necessary, and click on a particular resource to display. Next, click `Content Settings' in the Functions menu above the rendered resource.

Set the open date and the due date (if any). To do this, for each parameter's row, click the wrench symbol (\includegraphics[width=0.015\paperwidth]{editmap}) in the `in Course' `for Resource' column (if setting for a resource) or in the `for Enclosing Map or Folder' column, if setting for all resources in a folder. In the pop-up window enter the desired date and click the `Save' link.  Similarly, set the 'Use slot based access controls' to yes in the column: for `in Course' `for Resource' (or `for Enclosing Map or Folder'), if setting for all resources in a folder.

If the slot you created is an instructor-assigned slot then you will also set a value for the 'Slots of availability' parameter (`in Course' `for Resource' (or `for Enclosing Map or Folder') column, as appropriate. The value you enter will be the name of the slot you created. In the pop-up window the input type (combo box at the top of the popup) should be: `String Value'.  If more than one instructor-assigned slot will apply to to a particular resource, use : as the separator between the slot names.